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Wed, January 27, 2021 | 04:35
Editorial
The progressive Justice Party has faced its worst crisis since its establishment in 2012 with its leader resigning over sexual misconduct Monday. Chairman Kim Jong-cheol stepped ...
The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family is moving to recognize unmarried or cohabiting couples as a legally defined family. Korea's Civil Act limits the definition of a family...
Thoughts of the Times
There are various fruits, including imported ones, at every local convenience store. The tangerine is one of them and it is so cheap that ...
The emergence of COVID-19 has proven to be a balance-changer in the 21st global system. The deadly situation is reminiscent of events such as the Plague of Athens in 43...
China Watcher
Difficulty knocks on the door out of nowhere. Adversity comes in many forms. We all bound to face hardships from which it seems there is n...
Blogs
In the 1880s, Lillias Underwood, an early American missionary in Korea, wrote: “No matter how old one is, without a top-knot [a Korean] is...
On January 22, 1904, a palanquin stopped in front of the gates of Deoksu Palace and a young woman got out and approached the guards. She d...
K-culture is differentiated from Korean culture in a variety of ways. The former is primarily constructed for export, and its success or f...
As someone who was born in North Korea, it is so unexpected for me to be speaking about the Giving Tuesday movement that started in the Un...
Columns
Bernard Rowan
I'm happy Joseph Biden has begun as the new President of the United States. I think Koreans are too, at least those South of the Demilitar...
He's the most dangerous president in modern memory and he wielded his Twitter account like a weapon of mass destruction. Thank God they fi...
Allow me to express my heartfelt congratulations on your election and inauguration as the 46th president of the United States of America t...
U.S. President Joe Biden's inauguration ceremony was held with 25,000 armed National Guard soldiers standing by under a martial law-like a...
Tong Kim
The Biden administration is making it clear that it will review its policy toward North Korea in consultation with allies including South ...
Casey Lartigue, Jr.
“Go big or go home” is a saying meant to challenge people to do bigger things, but are there other options? It seems if you aren't trying ...
STOCKHOLM - A sigh of relief swept across Europe when it became clear that Joe Biden would replace Donald Trump in the White House. New le...
Jason Lim
Freedom of expression is enshrined in the constitutions of all democratic nations, but does that mean that there is also a freedom to expr...
Chang Se-moon
An SUV suddenly cut off a city bus as it left a stop in Jinju City, South Gyeongsang Province, on Dec. 16, 2019. The bus screeched to a ha...
The Korean ascent to greatness has been steep and fraught with danger, yet it is all the more remarkable for having overcome such obstacle...
Cartoons
Larry King
COVID war
Tribune Service
If there is a single day that marks the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, it would be Jan. 21, 2020, when the Centers for Disease Control and Pre...
Joe Biden gave the speech we needed after the trauma of an insurrectionist attack on the Capitol building before which he stood. With plain language, it was just right ...
Alexei Navalny, Russia's leading fighter for democracy, returned home last week, after recuperating in Germany from a Kremlin attempt to m...
Today in History

1736-Abdication of Stanislas, last king of Poland

1823-President Monroe appoints first U.S. ambassadors to South America

1926-U.S. Senate agrees to join World Court

1941-Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreiber warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor

1943-First U.S. air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)

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